Django - Media upload [Errno 13] Permission denied

The process that is running your Python interpreter doesn't have permission to write into the media directory. You'll need to either chgrp or chown the media directory to the same group as your Python process, and ensure you have at least g+rwx on directories and g+rw on files.

For me, I forgot to add: MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR,'media') to my settings.py file on my production server.

Make sure you have done following

Your settings.py

...
MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'media')
MEDIA_URL = '/media/'
...

Also set permission to media directory

chgrp -R www-data /path/to/media/
chmod -R g+w  /path/to/media/

I was getting the same error and fix it by changing:

MEDIA_ROOT = '/media/'

to:

MEDIA_ROOT = 'media/'

Under settings.py.